Title:
Location:
Program:
Date:
Medium:
Team:
Photography:
Valley of Kings
Toronto, Canada
“To Be Destroyed“, MOCCA
2014
Digital Collage
Dominique Cheng, Kristina Ljubanovic
Jeremy Jansen
MOCCA – TBD
TBD: Whither the Contemporary Art Museum?
How much art can you take? MoCCA’s thought provoking show turns the spotlight on itself
“Architecture is too slow in its realization to be a ‘problem solver‘” – Cedric Price.
If this is true, how much stock can we place in architecture’s ability to define the future of museums? And who’s to say these future museums will be physical entities at all?
Title:
Location:
Program:
Date:
Medium:
Team:
Photography:
Valley of Kings
Toronto, Canada
“To Be Destroyed“, MOCCA
2014
Digital Collage
Dominique Cheng, Kristina Ljubanovic
Jeremy Jansen
MOCCA – TBD
TBD: Whither the Contemporary Art Museum?
How much art can you take? MoCCA’s thought provoking show turns the spotlight on itself
“Architecture is too slow in its realization to be a ‘problem solver‘” – Cedric Price.
If this is true, how much stock can we place in architecture’s ability to define the future of museums? And who’s to say these future museums will be physical entities at all?
So what fate beholds these jagged, serpentine, crystalline and crumpled architectures? The proposed suggests an end to the museum as we know it, and a way of reading these institutions as majestic necropolis for a time when standing solemn before an artifact of art/culture, with hands stuffed in pockets, was among the noblest of pursuits.
